The team announced the hiring of new general manager John Idzik last night and also hired Marty Mornhinweg as the new offensive coordinator, according to a source. Coming off a 6-10 season, its second straight with no playoff appearance, the organization is undergoing an overhaul starting with Idzik.

After interviewing 10 people in the past two weeks, the Jets selected Idzik, the Seahawks’ vice president of football administration, to replace Mike Tannenbaum.

“After a thorough search in which we met many qualified and outstanding candidates, it was clear to me that John was the right choice,” Jets owner Woody Johnson said in a statement.

Idzik’s primary responsibilities with the Seahawks were contract negotiations and salary-cap management. The Jets are going to draw criticism for hiring a GM from the business side rather than the scouting side of a front office. Izik, 52, has a limited background in personnel, but the Jets felt he was a leader capable of overseeing every aspect of their football operation.

“During his two decades in the NFL, John helped build a Super Bowl championship team in Tampa Bay, an NFC championship team in Arizona and, most recently, a team in Seattle that narrowly missed reaching the NFC Championship game,” Johnson said. “John has seen first-hand what’s necessary to construct a winning team and has worked with some of the most innovative and successful coaches in the NFL, including Pete Carroll, Tony Dungy, Dennis Green, Jon Gruden and Mike Holmgren. Drawing on 20 years of NFL experience, John, working with Rex, will get the Jets where all of us want to be.”

Several of the candidates said it was clear to them head coach Rex Ryan has more power in the organization than they were used to a head coach having, but Idzik will have final say on all personnel moves and report directly to Johnson. He and Ryan met, but it was an informal discussion of philosophy and not part of the evaluation process.

“I am honored and extremely excited to be joining the New York Jets,” Idzik said in a statement. “It has been very enlightening getting to know Mr. Woody Johnson, Rex Ryan and [team president] Neil Glat and I am very grateful for them making me feel very welcomed as a member of the Jets family. I am eager to get started building on the foundation that is already in place.”

The Jets began looking for Tannenbaum’s replacement after firing him on Dec. 31. They began interviews on Jan. 4. Of the 10 candidates who received interviews, they spoke to three — Idzik, Steelers executive Omar Khan and Falcons director of player personnel Dave Caldwell — twice. Caldwell opted to take the Jaguars GM job before the Jets ever got to a stage of offering him a deal. According to a source, it was Caldwell who asked for a $1 million housing allowance as part of his contract. That clause was not initiated by the Jets.

The interviews were conducted by Johnson, Glat and headhunter Jed Hughes. Former Colts GM Bill Polian and Johnson adviser Ira Akselrad also sat in on some of the interviews. Polian did it as a favor to Johnson. He was not a paid consultant.

Idzik is not expected to overhaul the team’s personnel department. The new GM takes over a team with questions at quarterback, salary cap issues and a lot of in-house free agents.

Mornhinweg replaces Tony Sparano as offensive coordinator after spending 10 years with the Eagles, the past seven as offensive coordinator. He was interviewed for the job on Jan. 11. The Jets are known to have interviewed five candidates for the job: former Ravens offensive coordinator Cam Cameron, Stanford offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton, Saints quarterbacks coach Joe Lombardi and former Browns coach Pat Shurmur.

This will be the Jets’ third offensive coordinator in three years after Brian Schottenheimer and Sparano. The Jets finished ranked 30th in offense last season and have a huge question at quarterback, where Mark Sanchez struggled and the Tim Tebow experiment flopped.

With Idzik and Mornhinweg in place, all eyes now turn to the quarterback position and whom the Jets might bring in there.